Discipline and Debate The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery

Name: Discipline and Debate The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery
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ISBN: 9780520269477

ISBN-10: 0520269470

ISBN-13: 9780520269477

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Lempert

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"Before countless audiences across the globe, the Dalai Lama has tried to refashion Tibetan Buddhism into a modern religion compatible with empirical science and founded on principles of nonviolence and "universal compassion," but how exactly has this project affected monastic education in exile? This pathbreaking study traces the career of the modern liberal subject in the Tibetan diaspora in India. Focusing on monastic debate and disciplinary practices such as reprimand and corporal punishment, Michael Lempert shows how violence makes monks into educated, moral persons but in ways that trouble Tibetans who aspire to liberal ideals like individual autonomy and natural rights. Based on…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Michael Lempertis Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Technical Note on Transcription and Research Methods


Introduction: Liberal Sympathies



Debate



Dissensus by Design



Debate as a Rite of Institution



Debate as a Diasporic Pedagogy



Discipline



Public Reprimand is Serious Theatre



Affected Signs, Sincere Subjects


Conclusion: The Liberal Subject, in Pieces


Notes


References


Index